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long ago." As to the curtailment of the the power to call the ten plagues of Egypt
There was drink traffic, that is a good work avowedly on the English."
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Father Rev. Father FLYNN ... preaching a humbugs joined. The year ago at Sheffield, did not seem then to | MCMULLEN was first president of the Paris think it absolutely necessary.
According to branch of th- Gaelio Tnguet which adopts Why should they, being civilized, want
It was a Romanist to conquer the world? They are wise the Weekly Freeman of April 7th he the Sinn Fein platform
"Rev." ARRAM RYAN, who enough to know that no dogma is worth regretted that Irishmen were stigmatised as priest, the
"The m was foreign to an wrote in the Drogheda Independent of July thrusting upon unwilling converts at the drunkards. sword's point, and the only remaining Irishman, and was imported into Ireland by 28th last year the following eloquent but excuse for conquest, trade, has never been the Anglo-Saxons, and before God they un-Christian lines: their's because China has always been big would have to answer for it." The objection-
able word was so applied as early as A.D. ' enough to live on its own internal
sa far back, it is of merce and barter. Their ideal of national 1187, but without going prosperity is very similar to the European's, interest to note that in 1905-6 the Irish spent and though the national arrogance makes £1 58. d. per head of the population on i them scorn the elementary study necessary spirits against England's £1 14. 6d, or altogether Ireland spent thirteen millions for material reform under modern con.
sterling on a year's alcoholic drinks, whicha ditions, they are not so conservative a race a to be Panglossians. hey have reformed | is not had for such a poverty stricken and
That we'llift up the green and we'll before, and probably a change of dynasty, over taxed people, two thirds of whom are
tear down the red.” the disappearance of Manchu tyranny and guided in their ways by the priests. With
Sinn Féin of October 20th, reporting corruption, would open our eyes to see that regard to the boycotting, the terms China and decay are far from understood that it was an Irish invention, debate at Maynooth College and its sur- being indissolubly married, But that to be Certainly Sinn Fein speaks frosely whenprising majority for the Ston Fein policy, as Europeanized as the Japanese is un talking of imitating China and Tulia. The "the young priests of freland have much of the future of the nation in imperative step for them to take is not the United Irishman of Feb. 7th last year rather their hands." The Rev. Father John view of Sir CHARLES ELIOT at least. He suggests that India got the hint from
O'Reilly in Cape Town spake openly to a Rays "the evils and ugliness of modern Ireland. In that issue it says,
meeting of the Catholic Association, that to learn that A suggestion nf European civilization are as obvious as glad
the Act of Union was brought about by the the patriotic leaders its advantages, and there is no clearer proof of them than the fascination Indian National 'movement has been acted | fraud and was nat binding on the conscience which the East exercises upon nearly all upon," the suggestion being to boycott of the people. Catholicism abhors secret societies, but it makes a co ispicuous ex- who come under its spell." So far as Japau ¦ English goods. Copies of Sina
which Was "formed for the purpose of was concerned, it showed. itself, unlike it is stated, have since beru distributed | ception of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, China, too willing to learu, which makes broadenst among the natives of India. The
driving the English Hoverameat out of this old lan l of ours.” U has 380,000 members, it ready to abandon its own good points." | patriots of the most distressful entry are so much in earnest and the Celtic tempera- Now that China is on the move, it is to be
who have priestly per.nission to disregard hoped that it will not be misled into !ment is so prone to over-emphasis, that we abandoning its own good points for Europe's can afford to overlook some of the wilder any oath given to Protestant or heretic. | spreches about smashing England and the The Jesuits are specialias at this sort of
Moral Theology bad ones, hut vice versa.
English into “smithereens Taut these thing. ExcoBAR in his
touches that it is abiolutely allowable to things just narrated have a nasty look, one
kill a
man whenever the general welfare that must alienate sympathy, Stan Fein
proper security demands it."--and of September 15th last had an article headed
PERRONE, in Prolectiones Theologica," (Daily Press, 27th April).
Ugly England," in which the following
A modern standard Jesuit work, says "Following the example of China" was
haste comment, The English middle
“Tolerantia coligiosa impia est absurda.” men than whom the one of the first phrases to catch our eye class, the common
Fifty Romanist priests were present at a more ugly or when glancing through a brochure ex-world cannot show
Sinn Fein plaining the objects of the
animal human beings," and so on, merele meeting at which the English were openly movement in Ireland, which movement, as provokes a toleraut smile. Paddy's bark, consigned to Hell by two speakers, and not one protested. On the other hand, at the our London correspondant recently tele- when he is left to his own
Rev. PATRICK KAIN sam- meeting the graphed, is spreading abnormally. The nature, is always worse than his bite," and
declared that Ireland's hop lay in words Sinn Fein mean "ourselves alone," when he prays that he may live to see !! and are the watchwords of a party dissatisfied, day when the Irishmau may be able to educating her sons to the use of the gun," with the ** moderation" of the Irish Party light his pipe with the last spirk from the There is na ned to multiply these instance‹ of clerieil indecency, and we may close by in Parliament, as well as the title of a smouldering ruins of the British Em- newspaper which defines and advocates their į pire an actual oratorical outburst that mentioning that there is no denial that the priest influence voters, openly threatening objects. In its issue of May 5th last year provoked “ loud applause
those who volu The mischief is
eternal punishment to the Sinn Fein thus defined its aims We only a figure of speech.
Peddy in
One pricatly efnvasser's formula wrong. seek to hit England (a) through anti- | that Sinn Fein is a misnomer.
It was, Are you a Catholic, is on revor l. enlistment and the consequent crippling of not honestly say that the present revived
*ourælves or do you want to go to Hell?" The her army; (b) curtailment of the drink Irish agitation is hy or for
It is all clericalism. We and told curious thing is that Irishmen should over- traffic and the consequent diminution of alone.” her revenue; (e) through boycott of her that' no one can fully understand the book the hex orical fact that when they had He Rule in GRATTAN's Protestant industries, following the example of China ¦¦ Irish question unless he reads about the! and ladia." When a white European race : Jesuits," and there is ample evidence that : Parliament, it was th; priests who were its
most bitter opponents. Tue– Sinn flatters the Chinese by imitating their | the Soun Fein movement partakes more methods, to say nothing of the Indian of the odium theologicum than of patriotism movement is said to be spreading. We have shown that it takes guisine öf swadeshi movement, its declaration of policy | Mr. MICHAEL McCarthy, B.A.. himself a
Irish man, has events in fir parts of the globe, nad wo becomes of more than ordinary interest out 'Roman Catholic and au
When Australia grows here. We have heard of their¡ attitude, written that the poor frish don't know the may quote one more extract from its organ towards enlistment in the Army and Navy real point at issue The priests fanned ; and namestikə- before. Every Irishman who fought for ‹ this hatred of the Trish for the English with wiser she may do great things if the Britain was dubbed a traitor: those who 'superstitious breaths and blasts from the Japanese do not in the meantine take her
If we
were Australasians we would So recently furnace of Rome. They fin it still
They over joined the Boers were heroes.
Favour an Australian Republic under the Rev,“ Canoni are not in a poution to deny this gravey
the United States. The As December 19th 1905, the M'KENNA, P.P. wrote in the Freeman's charge, all the graver because of their pions ¦ protection of Journal advocating the raising of a memorial - professions. The evidenes is overwhelm. | Australians heartily detest the Euglish, and to the Irish Brigade who fought for the ing They preside at meetings or occupy there is much in common between Austra French at Fontenoy,“ whose valour changed : platforms whence the bitterest things are hans and Americaus." In view of this and victory." This said. The Archbishop of Tuam, Cartiyal | other cheerful specimens of its faeling for disaster into plorious
and priests! Poglud, we can but regret the nsw, that glorious victory, over the British, took place ¦ Legue, and several bishops
We b'are not the sheep in 1743, so that this Christian priest must applauded when a speaker miscalle i SWEET our Irish freuds are being led astray in
Max said the English Government hates ti | greater number.
1 indeed have felt charitable when offering a
shepherds, and are tempted to Bay." PATRICK KAIN subscription towards a memorial that to Irish nation as that of Egypt hated the but th his mind "should have been inaugurated | Jewish nation, and “would to God we had paraphrase the
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